by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | FO, PO, TR
Beowulf as Instruction for Living Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If only life, our stuttered lives, were like Sestinas or like Anglo Saxon lines Of poetry, each unseen ghostly spike Of caesuras that...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | Ho, PO, TR
Blind, not Blind http://ytellioglu.tumblr.com/post/86727114823/world-view-according-to-homer-prior-to-900-bc The poet didn’t matter as a man With quirks and motives of his own. He spoke From guts of culture, from the bones of clan. He spoke in patterns of...
by phillipw | May 12, 2020 | PO, TR
Oral Poems from the Past Conservative as brocade velvet, verse, The older forms, embraces in its folds The ancient tongues, the peoples’ tongues. They’re terse In ballades. Such rigidity upholds The thinking of the folk as if a starch Were added to the richness...
by phillipw | May 12, 2020 | PO
Prophetic Temptation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If only poets could entice the world, If only. Maybe they would cause the rain To fall in wadis. Mysteries unfurled By stanzas could obliterate...
by phillipw | May 11, 2020 | AB, JA, PO
From the Enlightenment to Gazing at a Dark-haired Navel...
by phillipw | May 10, 2020 | MU, PO
Guillaume de Machaut Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When strictest music and trim verse forms come Together, then is beauty found. Across In England Chaucer listened to succumb To Guillaume’s...
